guess
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Verb
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Plain form (yanzu) |
3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) |
Past tense (ya wuce) |
Past participle (ya wuce) |
Present participle (ana cikin yi) |
(transitive & intransitive)
- If you guess at something, you try to imagine what it might be, but you don't know the answer. <> yi cita / cinta / cinci, yi ka-cici-ka-cici, canka, yi bara da ka, ƙiyasa, lalubi
- "What happened? Why has play stopped?" "I don't know. I guess a player's hurt, maybe."
- You don't make such a decision through guessing. <> Ba a hukunci bara-da-ka. [1]
- (estimate roughly) kintata
- I guess he will be arriving tomorrow <> Na kintaci zuwansa gobe.
Noun
- A guess is an answer that you give when you don't know the real answer. <> cinta f / canke m, zato m
- You made a good guess. <> Cintarka ta yi daidai. = cincenka ya yi kyau.
- A wild guess. <> Kame-kame ne.
- "Wow, what a great car! How much do you think it costs?" "My guess is around $80,000." <> Taɓɗijan! Ga wannan motar mai kyau! Kamar nawa ne kuɗin ta? Zato na kusa da $80,000.